It’s all been discussed before – to death. I really don’t expect to see PerlMonks significantly change in its appearance or in the way that it operates ... and, I also don’t feel that this is necessarily a bad thing.
The mission, if you will, of PerlMonks is: to be the “go-to (goto??) source” of information about the Perl language (and of a great deal of pretty-advanced computer science) on the Internet. And, in that, I feel that it unquestionably is successful. Despite its warts, its quirks, its ragged-edged not-aliased clip art, and its occasional undignified belching ... it is generally stable, it’s familiar, and it contains decades’ worth of Super Search-able information about Perl. As an information resource, nothing comes close. It is mostly self-moderating; anyway, it is moderated extremely capably by whoever does it. It attracts and maintains a community of very bright – and sometimes, very prickly and opinionated – people who will usually answer any question (complete with a detailed code example) in about seven minutes. Uh huh, The Monastery is a pretty good place, just like it is. Maybe that’s why it still is “just like it is?” Maybe it should just stay that way.
